84 PERMANENT AND TEMPORAEY PASTUEES. 



Sundry Plants used for Grazing, 

 Feeding, or Making into Hay. 



ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM 

 [Yarrow, or Milfoil). 



Although neither a grass nor a clover, Yarrow is such an 

 ever-present constituent of dry pastures that it naturally comes 

 up for consideration here. The leaves are dense and elegantly 

 fimbriated, and the flowering time is after midsummer. The 

 plant is strictly perennial, and multiplies itself by root-growth. 

 It appears to be independent of the presence of potash in the 

 soil, and will consequently flourish where clovers can scarcely 

 maintain existence, or fail entirely. 



Yarrow is adapted for pastures, not for meadows, and seed 

 should be excluded from the mixture for a crop that is to be 

 generally mown. Sheep are very fond of the herbage, which is 

 believed to impart an excellent flavour to mutton, venison, and 

 to butter also, notwithstanding its astringent qualities. 



On dry gravels and light sands that will hardly support any 

 other plant Yarrow will grow, and no summer is too hot for it. 

 So great is its power of enduring drought that after a dry season 

 there is always a large demand for seed, and as this is difficult 

 to obtain of reliable germination, the price runs up to an ex- 

 travagant figure. 



Ammonia salts appear to be inimical to the growth of 

 Yarrow, nitrate less so, but heavy doses of any ammoniacal 

 manure are certain to reduce its bulk by increasing the strength 



